All the stadium stories you've missed since my last roundup while I've enjoyed some vacation and the rest of the country has been Tebowing....

Lay of the land New to this roundup? Here is a quick read published by the Associated Press this month about six of the seven teams whose names are most often mentioned when discussing football's possible return to Los Angeles. The list runs down the situations in Minnesota; St. Louis; San Diego; Oakland, Calif.; Jacksonville, Fla.; and Buffalo, N.Y., but excludes San Francisco.

Slump schmump Chargers president Dean Spanos was asked the other day how the team's recent slump might affect its stadium efforts.

"It won't," he replied. "A new stadium is a long-term, big-picture benefit for San Diego. I think people understand that."

That was before the team lost in Chicago Sunday. So ... do we need to ask him again?

And speaking of questions, anyone do anything this silly after the Bears' loss?

In other Spanos news It was reported that the family favors Rick Perry in the presidential election, that family fundraising helped make the Chargers second in the National Football League in political giving and that patriarch Alex Spanos is the seventh-best owner in the NFL, according to Forbes Magazine, which calculated that the franchise's value is up 11 percent in five years while the team's five-year winning percentage is 69 percent.

Alex Spanos garnered some unfavorable press, too. Capitol Weekly reported that Spanos is nine years late and $9 million short on a pledge to Sacramento State.

But what about the stadium? Chargers special counsel Mark Fabiani said in San Diego Rostra that the team's proposal for a new stadium with convention space (frowned upon by the mayor and backers of a convention center expansion who prefer contiguous growth) is "perhaps our last and best chance" to keep the Chargers in San Diego.

Using words like nominal, fungible, defrayed, deferred and feasible, footballphds.com explored the economics of the Chargers' idea last week. Their best guess at what kind of revenue could be generated from a football stadium with convention space caused one commentator to weigh in: You are pulling numbers out of your a$$." You be the judge.

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, in town for another event, met with Mayor Jerry Sanders on Thursday, Nov. 10 for a Chargers stadium update. The night before his meeting, Goodell told the media: "The three stadiums in California are certainly not up to the standards we’re seeing in the rest of the NFL.... We have to find a solution here. Right now, the San Diego Chargers are here because the Spanos family wants to be here. I believe they want to continue to be here. It’s up to us to find a solution."

For more on Goodell's comments here, see Chargers.com, which quoted him saying a substantial relocation fee "would be a consideration" for any team mulling a move to Los Angeles, or NFL.com, where he talked about the two L.A. stadium proposals. From the NFL.com story: